Barbed-wire fence



(No Model.)

J. W. GRISWO-LD. BARBED WIRE FENCE.

No. 486,179. Patented Nov. '15, 1892.

4 ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN WOOL GRISVVOLD, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

BARBED-Wl RE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 486,179, dated November 15, 1892.

Application filed June 15, 1891. Serial No. 396,263. (No model.)

To 00% whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN WooL GRISWOLD, of Troy, Rensselaer county, New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Barbed-Wire Fences, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates'to that class of wire fencing which is composedof a series of links, usually barbed; and it consists in the construction of said links and their combination to form a continuous fencing.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents my improved link partially formed. Fig. 2 represents the completed link. Fig. 3 represents a modification thereof, in which the ends of the link are wrapped around individual strands instead of around both strands. Fig. 4 is a section on the line 44 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5 5. of Fig. 3.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

My improved link is formed of a length of Wire A, bent twice to form loops or eyes B B at each end of the link. The ends of the wire Aare then interlocked, as shown atO in Fig. 1. One extremityD is then carried around both parts of the doubled wire A B and turned outwardly to form a barb. The other extremity E is also carried around both parts of the wire A and bent outward to form a barb in the opposite direction from the barb D. By

this construction the parallel parts of the link are clasped tightly together, while at the same time the ends D and E are closely interlocked. Instead of carrying the end D around both parts of the wire A, I may twist it or wrap it around only one partnamely, its own standing part-as shown in Fig. 3, and I may do the same thing with the end E.

Either form of my device as here shown forms a strong and durable fencing.

I claim- 1. A wire-fencing link composed of a length of wire doubled twice to form eyes, as B B, and having its ends D E interlocked and the said ends then twisted orwrapped around the body portion of said link.

2. A wire-fencing link composed of a length of wire doubled to form eyes BB and having its ends D E interlocked, one of said ends being twisted or wrapped about its own standing part.

3. A wire-fencing link composed of a length of wire doubled to form eyes B B and having its ends D E interlocked, one of said ends being twisted or wrapped about its own standing part and the other of said ends being twisted or wrapped around the straight middle portion of said link.

JOHN WOOL GRISWOLD.

Witnesses:

ALBERT SMITH,

HENRY W. SMITH. 

